Entertainment

By Harry Bedford This week sees the twentieth anniversary of the American sitcom Friends exploding onto our screens. The show ran for ten years from 1994 until 2004 and was based around six friends living in New York in their late twenties and early thirties. Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, it is one of the most popular television series in the history of the medium and has attracted audiences world-wide. The success of the show was also exemplified...

By Harry Bedford, Music Editor Underneath the arches of the viaduct adjacent to Leeds Railway Station stands the remains of a legendary music venue, Leeds’ own Cavern Club. It may only have been there 20 years and may not have been that well known outside the city, but this dark and dingy building was the epicentre of the Leeds music scene. I remember my first night there, I had just turned 18 and my brother and I went to see...

By Harry Bedford, Music Editor The Beatles are without doubt the greatest pop band ever to have existed. They almost single- handedly invented popular music as we know it today, and it wasn’t just their music that was so phenomenal, their story is unimaginable. Four working class boys from Liverpool who became icons of one of the most iconic periods in recent history. While everyone else was riding the revolutionary wave of the 1960s, The Beatles were directing it. Although...

By Ben Royston One would be forgiven for making the assumption singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran’s follow up album would not diverge much from his debut album, +. His first album was a tried and tested version of his previous released EPs, which shone with strong song writing and brilliant performances. Here is a growing solo artist with boundless talent. Although much of X could be seen as an extension of his debut, this album finds Sheeran in a very different place...

John Lennon wasn’t just a songwriter, he was a man who inspired millions of people with his wisdom. He yearned for a peaceful world, where only love reigned. Shockingly he died in the most violent way imaginable. It is worth revisiting some of his most famous quotes. Very few modern performers entire back catalogue, could match the impact of one of his quotes. We have assembled his top 23 sentences, enjoy 23. Art is only a way of expressing pain....

By Harry Bedford It’s undeniable that Cilla Black is a national treasure. If her music and television shows wasn’t your thing, you still can’t help but love the Liverpudlian redhead. She was not only a contemporary but a friend of The Beatles. They shared a manager, Brian Epstein, and a producer, George Martin. However Cilla was never subject to their shadow, the charismatic Merseysider was very much a star in her own right. Sheridan Smith has, much like Cilla, established...

By Henry Austin 6th September, Marlborough Pub & Theatre 4 Princes Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 1RD Strapped with a suicide vest, Jesus Christ’s method of martyrdom in the challenging production ‘I Am Mark’ is right up to date with those currently employed by religious extremists in parts the Middle East. The flat screen TV’s interspersed across the stage show intermittent messages delivered across them from the wild-eyed, increasingly frustrated, figure also echo the YouTube posts by Islamic State fighters in...

By Jonathan Hatchman Albeit one of the nation's most popular long-running television shows, The X Factor is, perhaps, also the most controversial, especially within the music industry, raising several massively publicised arguments. “Are the results fixed?” “Does the show strip up-and-coming acts of opportunities to succeed?” “Should the series' winners always claim the singles chart Christmas number one slot?” Or “is The X Factor singlehandedly destroying the music industry?” However, regardless of views towards the show in itself, over the...

Morrissey is more than just an enigma; he has a legion of dedicated fans who are devout followers of his work. Always a controversial figure, he has often made some outrageous quotes and has even been accused of racism. Either way he has achieved a demi-god like status. The Independent newspaper said of him, "Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status he has reached in his lifetime.” Here are his best quotes 1.On growing...